Lawmakers have elected new speakers for its parliament’s two houses, and both appointments have caused a stir. On Thursday, Ignazio La Russa became the speaker of the Senate. La Russa is considered to have been one of the key players behind the victory of Giorgia Meloni’s party, and he will now be the second-highest official in the government, seen as a highly controversial choice. A video of La Russa in his Milan home, posted in 2018 on the Corriere della Sera website, showed he collected Mussolini memorabilia. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, he suggested replacing handshakes with …